I'm trying to figure out just what they think that touch pad is going to accomplish that existing buttons don't already do. Swipe through menu screens? Buttons do that just fine today. The 'flicking' as shown by the video seemed odd too. What could I ever want to 'flick'...

Regarding the touchpad.. the first thing that comes to mind: tablet games (angry birds, fruit ninja).

But then traditional mouse applications came to mind - point and click adventures, RTS (except 1. person shooters. But ofcourse, right?). I imagine finally(!) being able to group-select stuff
--intuitively-- in games.

I figure it'll be even better than navigating with a notebook touchpad, given the clickable surface.

And I'm exited to see how well mouse acceleration will work. Or if it'll even be added. I think the touchpad (and the dualscreen/lightbar thing) might be the greatest addition to a controller since rumble! /bold

Remember PS4 has a video editor for the stuff you record and i imagine swiping the touchpad will help you edit it faster. For example what if you recorded 3 hours of video and you wanted to quickly get to the 2 hour mark. Do you really want to hold down the d-pad to get there?

Link to confirm this please. I doubt they would put all of the functions of it behind a paywall.

It was in the conference, wasn't it? Maybe it's not official but I read that somewhere. I'll pull up the link tomorrow, too late right now lol. But if it's free then damn, i'm all for it but i ain't payin $#@! for sharing some $#@!ty ass video lol.

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